Re: [Efw-user] no luck installing...

[Mike T. <mg...@st...>]

Aaron J Weber wrote:
> Man, I am having zero luck installing this from the 2.0-RESPIN ISO on 
> two different PCs.
>  
> Now I'm trying to install to a relatively new HP PC with an AMD Athlon 
> 64 CPU in it.  It has an SATA drive and two PATA drives (tried disabling 
> the SATA controller to see if that was the problem, no effect).
>  
> Basically it prompts me to boot, uncompresses the kernel, gets to 
> "Booting the Linux kernel..." and then the whole PC REBOOTS!  (Never 
> gets to the blue-and-red installation mode.)
>  
> Can anyone tell me some things to try here?  I can't believe I'm having 
> so much trouble with this install.  Previously WhiteBox Linux 4 was on 
> this PC, and before that Windoze was on it.  I know the hardware is all 
> fine.
>  
> 

You seem to be having some pretty horrible luck. I've only done 2 installs one 
on a modern system with Sata drives, dual core intel, etc .... No problems. The 
other an ancient AMD K62+-550mhz with slew of cast of parts. That one would not 
read the CD and I had to download the magic floppy mentioned in the maillist. 
That got it going no problem. I would at least try that method first just to 
see if there is something funny with the CD that can be over come.

Otherwise I'm not sure what to say, if the PC could boot Whitebox [a RHEL 
clone] it should boot Endian which has a RHEL kernel [or something close to one].

-Mike


[PS the floppy thing is Smart Boot Manager 
http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/download.html ]